Words specifically used in one area of the country

[MontyVeda]

yeah but, you do live in hebden bridge

 

[Poacher]

'Dunno, tintarn' = 'I don't know, it doesn't belong to us'. A Dottigub expression, I believe.

 

[Alun]

Bairns = kids, parts of Yorkshire, from Old Norse.

 

[on the road]

I'm an East Lancashire lad and when I was growing up, it was before people really moved around a great deal in the area and so words tended to be localised to the towns themselves. A friend of mine was very proud of the fact that he could tell which town you were from by how you spoke. My accent confused him as may dad was from Blackburn but my mum was from Liverpool.

I do remember oven bottoms but to my scouse mother they were always barm cakes. Tea cakes are things with currants in them.

Slops = police. Apparently to a scouser, slop is police backwards. (don't ask me!!)

I'm sure I'll think of others.

I think someone must be telling you porkies, we've always called them bizzies, when we're not calling them pigs that is.

 

[Baggy]

My Yorkshire Dad still puts pot of tea on to mash.

 

[swee'pea99]

Lots of brilliant words on this thread, most of which are new to me. I had come across Meikle ('muckle'): large, as in 'Many a mickle maks a muckle', which my mum used to say, but I don't know where she got it from (she was a bit posh, in truth).

As for 'innit', it's certainly all of London, and probably more yoofness besides, but it doesn't quite mean 'isn't it?' More 'Is it not the case that?', in a very broad sense - directly akin to the French n'est-ce pas? As in, He's really fit, innit, or The bus went 10 minutes ago, innit.

 

[vernon]

Bairns = kids, parts of Yorkshire, from Old Norse.

It's found north of Yorkshire - in County Durham, Cumberland, Westmoreland and Northumberland for instance

 

[summerdays]

Hot press = airing cupboard
Shade = parting in your hair

 

[Sandra6]

I didn't realise "bob" or "bobbins" meaning something was poo, as in rubbish, but also for if somebody/something had done a poo was a local thing until I moved to cumbria and one of my kids was laughing at bob the builder on a t-shirt saying "he's got bob on his shirt" and nobody got it.
Up here they say "yam" for home and "shan" or "shant" for embarrassed."peeve" is drink (alcoholic) and "blin" is drunk.
I also have four teenagers so am surrounded by foreign language a lot of the time.

 

[User169]

Bairns = kids, parts of Yorkshire, from Old Norse.

Almost the same as Norwegian which uses "barn".

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Bairns = kids, parts of Yorkshire, from Old Norse.

Glasgow too

 

[Cheddar George]

Daps........... naturally stored in a dap bag.

 

[MontyVeda]

isn't it amazing how many words which are 'specifically used in one area of the country' ... are actually used throughout